Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH nbdkit 2/2] allocators: sparse: Split the highly contended mutex

On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 10:35:30AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: Thanks, I pushed the two patches as e397f0643..9b5b93a07 About using fcntl locks: it seems troublesome because we'd then need to have an actual file to lock (even one in /dev/shm). That makes the implementation significantly more complicated in unexpected ways. I'm thinking about error handling as we'd need to handle file errors rather than basically aborting on pthread error as we do now. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v